Where To Find Election Coverage Updates
While SFist will bring you election 2010 updates as soon as the numbers start rolling in, you can also keep track online. Behold: California state results page is a good option; here's the link for San Francisco's results. You can also watch live coverage on SFGTV on cable channel 26.
Measures, Propositions, and Other Things
With fewer than 25% of registered voters turning out for the election, here's how things went down after Tuesday's primary election.
SF Election Results
The votes are in. Four out of five propositions passed. Here's how things went down after yesterday's election:
SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera Sues to Invalidate Prop. 8
Today City Attorney Dennis Herrera today, along with Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and Santa Clara County Counsel Anne C. Ravel, filed "a petition for a writ of mandate with the California Supreme Court to invalidate Proposition 8, an initiative constitutional amendment that intends to strip gay and lesbian citizens of their fundamental right to marry in California."
How Did San Francisco Propositions Do?
These "key" propositions have been called, with no real surprises. (Although the proposition asking voters to rename of the San Francisco sewage treatment facility in honor of George W. Bush went down in flames.)
How Did Prop. 8 Pass?
While it's technically still too close to call, it looks like the same-sex marriage ban, Prop. 8, will prove victorious. Why? Well, one reason, according to BeyondChron's Paul Hogarth, might be that "[p]rogressives were lulled into complacency by early poll numbers, and distracted by the Barack Obama campaign." Hogarth goes on to say that "discrimination has been enshrined in our Constitution" as of this morning. (Read his thorough take on how it won, right here.)
Bay Area MLB-Funk All-Stars "Mid-Summer Classic" Rundown
Major League Baseball played its 79th All-Star Game last night, a 15-inning, long hard slog eventually won by the American League, 4-3. Your hometown team players had a couple cameos and made a few notable contributions in the evening’s proceedings…
Your Election Night Fêtes
Too real, if you ask us. Election night will soon fall upon the city like a blanket of darkness. But that doesn't mean you should celebrate or grieve alone. Ripping off Inspired by SFBG's Election Night Parties, we present to you SFist's...election night parties. Ta-da. -- Gavin Newsom's (Victory) Party: Pros: at the Ferry Building, the thrill of victory, Gavin's form Cons: at some point you will be snubbed by someone in the society...

